Monday, October 12, 2009
Uncategorized Watch out for Los Paranoicos/The Paranoids
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Luciano Gauna (Daniel Hendler) fears he might have AIDS. He doesn’t have any symptoms or much of a reason to be afraid, but he compulsively calls the help hotlines anyway. He’s unsure of how to finish the screenplay he’s been working on for years, but he’s insecure about letting anyone read it. When the day's over, he likes to relax with a joint, though he can’t even do that until he closes the curtains and lights incense at the base of his apartment door. Needless to say, Luciano is the titular character of Los Paranoicos/The Paranoids.
Luciano is visited by Manuel (Walter Jakob), a successful and confident friend from film school, who's returned to Argentina from Spain. Though Manuel tells him nothing about it, Luciano discovers that Manuel is producing a television show in Europe called "Los Paranoicos" about a loser named Luciano Gauna. In the pilot, Luciano’s television doppelganger narrates, “I’ve been a damn coward for all my life.” The real Luciano is unable to confront Manuel and the tension between the two friends slowly rises.
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